[Peace-discuss] UN Definition of Genocide

[Roger Helbig via Peace-discuss]

you seem to ignore the very beginning -

* committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national,
ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:*

Committed with intent is essential - there has been no intent, but I am
sure that the propagandists, of which you seem either to be a willing
participant or just a willing dupe, take your choice, would choose all of
us to believe otherwise.



On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 7:56 PM, David Johnson <davidjohnson1451 at comcast.net>
wrote:

>  Yes,
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> Israel has committed every single item you listed, except the last item,
> and the U.S. State Dept. has supported a multitude of governments over the
> decades since world war II who have done all of the items you listed.
>
> David J.
>
>  On 10/6/2014 8:25 PM, Roger Helbig via Peace-discuss wrote:
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>  Many of you should refresh your memory of what exactly "Genocide" is,
> not just throw the term around because it seems like the thing to do -
> comes from the US Holocaust Museum
> http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007043
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>  *THE CRIME OF GENOCIDE*
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> On December 9, 1948, in the shadow of the Holocaust
> <http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005143> and in no
> small part due to the tireless efforts of Lemkin himself, the United
> Nations approved the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the
> Crime of Genocide. This convention establishes "genocide" as an
> international crime, which signatory nations "undertake to prevent and
> punish." It defines genocide as:
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> *[G]enocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to
> destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious
> group, as such: (a) Killing members of the group; (b) Causing serious
> bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (c) Deliberately inflicting
> on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical
> destruction in whole or in part; (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent
> births within the group; (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to
> another group. *
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